ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1360 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 's Advantages

Lower TDP (289W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +289%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 295

0.596 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce GTX 295

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jan 2009

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

1600

Shading Units

240

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

28

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

46.08 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

596.2 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.52 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

289W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GT200B

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

G200-401-B3

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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